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JUNE 2018 on the Dry Side JUNE 2018 On the Dry Side Newsletter of the Monterey Bay Area Cactus & Succulent Society President’s Message Contents We will see summer’s offiCial first day on June 21st, a few days after our June Contents ................................................................ 1 meeting. Remember, your plants will do well during these warm months if you President’s Message ....................................... 1 irrigate them oCCasionally. MBACSS Board Minutes ................................. 2 Last month, our message to members was that we will need two volunteers to Program for June ............................................... 3 serve on the board as, respeCtively, membership Chairperson and treasurer. I am very pleased to report that members have stepped forward to meet these MBACSS Calendar 2018 ................................. 4 important responsibilities. The board will Consider approving these nominees June’s Mini-Show: CaCti .................................. 5 during its June meeting, and we expeCt to announCe their appointments during June’s Mini-Show: SuCCulents ...................... 6 our general meeting. June’s Mini-Show: Hybrid Aloes ................ 7 At the same time, we will voiCe our appreCiation for two board members that CSSA News ........................................................... 8 are stepping down from these positions. Ruth Pantry has been the SoCiety’s April’s Mini-Show Winners .......................... 9 treasurer for a very long time, and has provided extraordinary Commitment and expertise throughout her tenure. She will continues her valuable role as OffiCers & Chairpersons ................................. 10 our organizational memory! Members Update ............................................... 10 Linda MCNally has been the SoCiety’s membership chairperson for a shorter period, but has both provided her skills to that task and Contributed to board disCussions thoughtfully and Congenially. Even as she inCreases her work commitments, we welCome her continued engagement with the SoCiety. Our bylaws provide for members to eleCt board members in off-numbered years, and for the board to appointment members to fill any vaCations that ocCur between sCheduled eleCtions. Our next eleCtion will be in November of 2019, so the Current appointments will be Close to 1.5 years. As always, the members ensure the SoCiety’s suCCess! Save the Date! MBACSS Meets Board Meets Future meetings June 17, 2018 June 17, 2018 Third Sundays Gathering @ 12:00 Board @ 11:00 Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 1716 Plant Sale @ $12:15 Members always Potluck @ 12:30 1960 Freedom Blvd. welcome to attend Watsonville, CA Program @ 1:00 Aloe ‘DZ’ (Zimmerman) ON THE DRYSIDE JUNE 2018 Minutes of the May Board Meeting Call to Order: Tom Karlin called the meeting to order. Board members present: Naomi Bloss, Tom Karwin, Sharon Lucchesi, Sarah Martin, Jorge Quinonez, Gary Stubblefield Board members absent: Ruth Pantry, Stan Verkler Guests: Jeff Brooks, Linda McNally Minutes of April 15, 2018: The minutes for the April 15 meeting were accepted as written by Mary Cross and edited by Tom Karwin. Tom Requested that Mary include in the minutes the names of folks who volunteer to do things as a way to keep track. Treasurer’s Report: There was no Treasurer’s report because Ruth is still in the rehab facility and no one else gets copies of the bank statements. Chairpersons’ Reports (information) Program Sarah Martin: had no additional information to report. Sunshine Committee: Sharon Lucchesi reported there are no new members who are sick Spring Sale: Gary Stubblefield reported that there were two mistakes with the money systems. CSSA: Jorge Quiñonez has copies of the 53rd Annual Show and Sale for the CSSA, plus exhibitor tags. Old Business (Reports) 2019 CSSA Conference: Gary Stubblefield reported there is no additional information available about this conference. New Business Board Positions to be filled. We need at least an interim treasurer, pending Ruth Pantry’s absence. We also need a new membership chairperson, since Linda McNally has resigned. Tom Karwin will call for volunteers, and will seek access to Ruth Pantry’s membership and financial files. Linda McNally will describe duties of the membership chairperson. Reserve Fund Discussion: Tom was not ready to provide the materials needed to plan for reserve funds, but discussion indicated some changes (e.g., to pay for a larger venue for shows) might require an increase in membership fees. Jorge will explore school venues in Salinas. Other ideas were: Soquel High School or other school facilities, the Portuguese Hall in Watsonville, having a mini-sale at the VFW Hall, members (as the Club) could participate in various farmers markets. Tom will contact Maggie Barr regarding participating in Farmers Markets. The Board approved purchase of an electric kettle for hot water so it will not be necessary to bring a big pot each month to the meeting. Board affirmed our intension to limit the beginning of the sale of plants by speakers who bring plants for sale to 12:15. Jeff Brooks was suggested as the sergeant at arms to administer the 12:15 deadline. Jeff Brooks confirmed a date for club members to tour Monterey Bay Nursery, 2652 San Juan Rd., Aromas (at Carpentaria and San Juan Rd.) to see the current inventory of plants. The date is June 23, 9:00 to 11:00 am. Jeff will give a short talk during the visit. iii Direction to Monterey Bay Nursery From points north: Take Watsonville’s Main Street South to Pajaro; turn left on San Juan Road Road; continue 9.6 miles to 2652 San Juan Road (at Carpenteria). From points south: Take Highway 101/156 north; tale exit toward San Juan Road (G11); turn left on San Juan Road; continue 1.6 miles to to 2652 San Juan Road (at Carpenteria). 2 ON THE DRYSIDE JUNE 2018 Preview of June’s Program Aloes On My Mind: Exploring Aloe Hybrids One Generation at a Time by Karen Zimmerman Summary of the Talk I start with an overview of the genus aloe; distribution and diversity of speCies. I go through a short tutorial on pollinating and seed produCtion. I talk a little about the work of hybridizers up to the present, with a speCial mention about Kelly Griffin, who was my inspiration to try my hand at hybridizing. I show parent plants and offspring, inCluding some that beCame good enough to name and distribute, and others that beCame disappointments. Then I show some promising babies and future possibilities. For more about Karen’s plants, see “Fantasy Aloe Hybrids,” posted on the Huntington blog. Bottom left: Aloe ‘Gargoyle’ Bottom right: Alow ‘DZ’ Other plants: new hybrids under evaluation Biographical Notes Karen Zimmerman has loved and grown plants from a very young age, thanks to her grandparents. SuCCulents beCame a major passion of hers in 1994, and she has never slowed down. She has been with the Huntington Library, Art Galleries and BotaniCal Gardens for 18 years as SuCCulent Propagator, caring for the many thousands of potted plants in the Desert Collections. SinCe 2002, aloe hybridizing beCame a “hobby” within her job. She still gets that same "Christmas morning" exCitement when a batCh of new aloe hybrid babies germinates. It's even better when they start to develop some CharaCter, often very early with the first true leaf. Despite Careful breeding for speCifiC traits suCh as Color, size or toothiness, unexpeCted anomalies Can appear in any breeding, espeCially given how CompliCated these aloe hybrids have beCome with generations of speCies and crosses in the mix. The standouts are, of Course, the ones she craves! She has had 10 hybrids published and distributed through the Huntington’s International SuCCulent IntroduCtions (ISI) program, with many more on the horizon. Photography is another passion that she brings to her work, and has had many photos published in journals, books and a photography magazine. 3 ON THE DRYSIDE JUNE 2018 MBACSS Calendar for 2018 Month Program Cactus Mini-Show Succulent Mini-Show Jan. 21st Joseph Hidalgo: Starting a ColleCtion: Any CaCtus in 6-inCh or smaller Aloe Geophytes & CaudiCiforms container Feb. 18th Jeff Moore: Soft SuCCulents Carnegeia, FeroCaCtus, Dudleya EchinoCaCtus Mar. 18th Rob Skillin: Copiapoa, Eriosyce Haworthia, Gasteria, RusChia, Kenya, Land of TropiCal SuCCulents Delasperma Mar. 24, 25 MBACSS Spring Show & Sale, San Juan Bautista Apr. 15th Ernesto Sandoval: SuCCulent Propagation Rebutia, SulCorebutia Aeonium from Seeds May 20th Martin Quigley: Echinopsis, SCleroCaCtus, Echeveria SuCCulents of South AfriCa Azetkium June 17th Karen Zimmerman: Aloes On My Mind: ArioCarpus, Astrophytum, Crassula, Kalanchoe è Exploring Aloe Hybrids, One Generation AcanthoCalyCium Extra Category: Aloes at a Time July 15th Keith Taylor: (topiC?) Optunia Agave, Dykia, Puya Aug. 19th Country Store No Mini-show Sep. 16th TBA MeloCaCtus Sempervivium, Sedum TBA MBACSS Fall Show & Sale, San Juan Bautista Oct. 21st TBA Parodia (NotoCaCtus), PaChyforms (CaudiCiforms, GymnoCalyCium PaChyCauls) Nov. 18th TBA Mammilaria Lithops, Aloinopsis, Conophytum, FauCaria, Pleiospilos DeC. 23rd Christmas Party No Mini-show Related Events Elsewhere in California (and Beyond) April 29 Huntington BotaniCal Gardens Plant Sale, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino May 26-27 Central Coast CSS Show & Sale, Ludwick Community Ctr., 864 Santa Rosa, San Luis Obispo June 2 San FranCisCo Epiphyllum SoCiety Show & Sale, Golden Gate Park ReCreation Room, 9th & LinColn Way, SF June 2-3 Fresno CSS Show & Sale, Clovis Veterans Memorial Building, 808 Fourth St., Clovis June
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